R Observatory: Metrics for backShift version 0.1.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-04-30. Its history is shown below.

Reason: email to the maintainer is undeliverable

Details below reflect version 0.1.4.3, its last release before removal.

backShift

0.1.4.3Package record

Learning Causal Cyclic Graphs from Unknown Shift Interventions

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christina Heinze-DemlCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Code for 'backShift', an algorithm to estimate the connectivity matrix of a directed (possibly cyclic) graph with hidden variables. The underlying system is required to be linear and we assume that observations under different shift interventions are available. For more details, see arXiv:1506.02494.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/backShift/backShift_0.1.4.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "backShift_0.1.4.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.4.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("christinaheinze/backShift")

Development version from christinaheinze/backShift. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

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Status changes

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.1.4.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 22%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 56%
Help pages citing references: 30%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,731 · ~8/day · ~234/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (7)

methodsclue igraph matrixcalc reshape2 ggplot2MASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr pander fields testthat pcalg rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Christina Heinze-Deml

Contributor · added in 0.1.4.1

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Christina Heinze

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.1.3

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.4.1
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2017-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bootstrapBackShift, computeDiagonalization
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-10-13 · diff ↗

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0.1.2
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2015-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
plotInterventionVars, plotDiagonalization
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2015-06-09
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-09
Total releases: 6 / 11 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 371 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("backShift")

Format

Heinze-Deml, C. (n.d.). backShift: Learning Causal Cyclic Graphs from Unknown Shift Interventions (Version 0.1.4.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=backShift

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for backShift version 0.1.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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